Literary Indians

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ISBN9781469646947
AutoresAngela Calcaterra
EditoraThe University of North Carolina Press
FormatoCapa mole
Número de páginas256
Peso (kg)0,390
Data de Publicação30/12/2018
Preço (iva excl.)€ 49,91
Imposto€ 2,99
Preço (iva inc.)€ 52,90
Disponibilidade1 unidade em armazém externo

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Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production. Countering the prevailing notion of the ""literary Indian"" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focused on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics, in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.